Biography:

Dr. Silverman received his medical degree and Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. He carried out his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and an HIV post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Dr. Silverman is a pioneer in the field of Fecal Microbial Transplantation for treatment of Clostridium difficile. He was one of the first to perform the procedure in North America and he has established a large clinical and research program associated with this.

He has conducted many studies of prevention of infectious complications of injection drug use. He has over 130 peer reviewed publications including recently as a first or senior author in the Annals of Internal Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, JAMA series and Lancet Infectious Diseases. Reviews of his work have been written in Science, Nature and reported in the International mass media including in the New York Times, BBC, CNN, The Times of India etc..